Auto-Fun of the Day:: 2-17-2008

quote: "There is no life I know to compare with pure imagination. Living there, you'll be free if you truly wish to be. If you want to view paradise, simply look around and view it." (Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory)

links:

• The Daring Book for Girls ... "Just like Genesis, a chip off the old spare rib." (@The Times UK)
• This kinda makes me sad: Is PBS still Necessary? (@The NYTimes)
• I will be really sad if people stop paying me to write their college admission essays, but it could totally happen ... "Admissions Officers Wary of Slick Essays" (@The Boston Globe)
• America just has way too many stores. (@Slate)
• Susan Sontag's final wish: "she wanted hope, a reason to believe she would survive cancer. In a candid interview, her son, David Rieff, discusses his mother's battle to live and his struggle to hide the truth. (@Salon)